Since the EU referendum last summer, shares in Dixons Carphone (DC.) have largely gone sideways. That's likely to be the result of mounting fear over the state of UK retail, particularly as higher input costs drive industry-wide price inflation. If wage inflation can't keep pace and disposable incomes contract, product categories such as small electricals - Dixons' speciality - don't tend to fare well.
It's impossible to know if the board thinks this scenario is likely to play out, but chief executive Seb James was among several board members offloading a chunk of shares recently. That said, Ian Livingston - the group's newly promoted chairman - bought in to the tune of nearly £50,000. Mr Livingston will officially succeed Charles Dunstone in April when Mr Dunstone takes up the role of executive chairman at telecoms group TalkTalk (TALK).
Buys | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
AFH Financial | Mark Chambers | 02 Feb 17 | 5,000 | 170 | 8,500 | 35,000 | 0.145 |
AFH Financial | John Wheatley (ch) | 02 Feb 17 | 6,000 | 170 | 10,200 | 291,706 | 1.206 |
Aberdeen Asian income Fund | Krystyna Nowak | 08 Feb 17 | 3,413 | 205.3545 | 7,009 | 15,432 | 0.008 |
Amino Technologies♥ | Donald McGarva (ceo) | 07 Feb 17 | 7,805 | 192 | 14,986 | 450,453 | 0.638 |
Anglo Pacific* | David Archer | 06 Feb 17 | 20,000 | 125 | 25,000 | 20,000 | 0.011 |
Anglo Pacific* | Julian Treger (ceo) | 06 Feb 17 | 40,000 | 125 | 50,000 | 5,586,454 | 3.088 |
Anglo Pacific* | Patrick Meier | 06 Feb 17 | 16,000 | 125 | 20,000 | 173,318 | 0.096 |
Anglo Pacific* | Robert Stan | 06 Feb 17 | 24,000 | 125 | 30,000 | 147,540 | 0.082 |
Anglo Pacific* | Mike Blyth (ch) | 06 Feb 17 | 8,000 | 125 | 10,000 | 126,822 | 0.070 |
Anglo Pacific* | Rachel Rhodes | 06 Feb 17 | 7,500 | 125 | 9,375 | 22,500 | 0.012 |
BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust | Peter Baxter | 02 Feb 17 | 5,000 | 286.13 | 14,307 | 5,000 | 0.005 |
Byotrol | John Langlands (ch) | 03 Feb 17 | 800,000 | 4.195 | 33,560 | 1,100,000 | 0.410 |
Charles Taylor♥ | Mark Keogh (cfo) | 07 Feb 17 | 6,607 | 227 | 14,998 | 41,638 | 0.062 |
Charles Taylor | Mark Keogh (cfo) | 07 Feb 17 | 6,809 | 219 | 14,912 | 35,031 | 0.052 |
Conviviality | David Adams (ch) | 03 Feb 17 | 10,000 | 269.75 | 26,975 | 58,163 | 0.034 |
Cropper (James)♥ | M Cropper (ch) | 03 Feb 17 | 1,500 | 1437.5 | 21,563 | 561,071 | 5.928 |
Cropper (James)♥ | M Cropper (ch) | 07 Feb 17 | 4,000 | 1437.5 | 57,500 | 565,071 | 5.970 |
Dixons Carphone | Ian Livingston | 06 Feb 17 | 16,653 | 298 | 49,626 | 31,889 | 0.003 |
Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust | Martin Nѐgre | 08 Feb 17 | 20,963 | 115.25 | 24,160 | 2,342,628 | 2.550 |
Frontier Smart Technologies | Anthony Sethill (ceo) | 06 Feb 17 | 25,000 | 79 | 19,750 | 150,000 | 0.351 |
Frontier Smart Technologies | Anthony Sethill (ceo) | 06 Feb 17 | 25,000 | 79.5 | 19,875 | 125,000 | 0.292 |
Future | Zillah Byng-Thorne (ceo) | 02 Feb 17 | 19,498 | 179.5 | 34,999 | 74,058 | 0.014 |
ReNeuron | Michael Hunt (cfo) | 07 Feb 17 | 250,000 | 2.64 | 6,600 | 2,008,471 | 0.063 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings | John McAdam | 07 Feb 17 | 34 | 700.5 | 238 | 3,301 | 0.000 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings | Ian Davis (ch) | 07 Feb 17 | 283 | 700.5 | 1,982 | 42,922 | 0.002 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings | Lee Yang | 07 Feb 17 | 140 | 700.5 | 981 | 4,294 | 0.000 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings | Ruth Cairnie | 07 Feb 17 | 277 | 700.5 | 1,940 | 11,672 | 0.001 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings | Sir Frank Chapman | 07 Feb 17 | 565 | 700.5 | 3,958 | 22,999 | 0.001 |
Rolls-Royce Holdings | Sir Kevin Smith | 07 Feb 17 | 377 | 700.5 | 2,641 | 21,313 | 0.001 |
Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Co | Christopher Keljik | 03 Feb 17 | 744 | 267.225 | 1,988 | 122,626 | 0.169 |
Shires ome | Robert Talbut | 02 Feb 17 | 4,498 | 223.13 | 10,036 | 14,969 | 0.050 |
Speedy Hire | Thomas Morgan (fd) | 08 Feb 17 | 61,929 | 51.875 | 32,126 | 179,680 | 0.034 |
Speedy Hire | Robert Contreras | 07 Feb 17 | 40,000 | 51.93 | 20,772 | 40,000 | 0.008 |
Tethyan Resources | Didier Fohlen | 03 Feb 17 | 100,000 | 6.3 | 6,300 | 4,053,333 | 2.777 |
Unicorn AIM VCT* | Jeremy Hamer | 08 Feb 17 | 12,202 | 163.9 | 19,999 | 40,456 | 0.040 |
Unicorn AIM VCT* | Peter Dicks (ch) | 08 Feb 17 | 12,202 | 163.9 | 19,999 | 176,510 | 0.175 |
Unicorn AIM VCT* | Charlotta Ginman | 08 Feb 17 | 6,101 | 163.9 | 10,000 | 6,101 | 0.006 |
Unicorn AIM VCT*♥ | Charlotta Ginman | 08 Feb 17 | 6,101 | 163.9 | 10,000 | 12,202 | 0.012 |
Sells | |||||||
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Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
Centamin | Josef El-Raghy (ch) | 08 Feb 17 | 5,450,000 | 170.6 | 9,297,700 | 48,399,372 | 4.201 |
Crest Nicholson Holdings♥ | Chris Tinker | 07 Feb 17 | 187,592 | 527.5 | 989,548 | 0 | 0.000 |
Dixons Carphone♥ | Humphrey Singer (cfo) | 02 Feb 17 | 200,000 | 315 | 630,000 | 419,748 | 0.036 |
Dixons Carphone | Katie Bickerstaffe | 02 Feb 17 | 50,000 | 315 | 157,500 | 359,568 | 0.031 |
Dixons Carphone | Graham Stapleton | 02 Feb 17 | 182,500 | 315 | 574,875 | 307,534 | 0.027 |
Dixons Carphone | Sebastian James (ceo) | 02 Feb 17 | 302,000 | 315 | 951,300 | 606,835 | 0.053 |
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) | Christian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig | 06 Feb 17 | 750,000 | 4.5 | 33,750 | 34,252,442 | 13.987 |
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) | Christian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig | 07 Feb 17 | 250,000 | 4.75 | 11,875 | 33,752,442 | 13.783 |
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) | Christian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig | 07 Feb 17 | 250,000 | 5 | 12,500 | 34,002,442 | 13.885 |
Numis Corp | Marcus Chorley | 07 Feb 17 | 12,000 | 279.5 | 33,540 | 3,469,245 | 3.072 |
SThree | Gary Elden (ceo) | 07 Feb 17 | 120,000 | 317.63 | 381,156 | 2,681,934 | 2.066 |
*Placing/tender/open offer ♥Spouse/connected party |